You want a job in Advertising. Excellent choice.

You want to meet companies on campus to discuss your options. Ah.

Lots of Industries are really well represented on campus. Like banking, law and consulting. But if you're interested in the creative industries you're in trouble.

The Oxford Advertising Society got started for this very reason, as its president explains: if you want a career which doesn't involve wearing a suit then you're going to struggle to find information on campus.

A big hurdle for students is that it's actually very hard to establish which companies exist that can offer them a job. Few are household names, in fact most of them don't have names but funny acronyms. And if they're not on campus it's pretty much impossible to establish where to apply.

To help you all out, here's a starting list. Lots of Ad agencies who recruit grads, information resources for the industry and some marketing and advertising specific job boards. Aren't we lovely!

Happy hunting... 

P.S. To research your options don't forget our graduate jobs in advertising section.

www.brandrepublic.com

www.ipa.co.uk

www.agencyrepublic.com

www.amvbbdo.com

www.bartleboglehegarty.com

www.bmbagency.com

www.brothersandsisters.co.uk

www.chiandpartners.com

www.circuslondon.com

www.daredigital.com

www.ddblondon.com

www.dlkw.co.uk

www.eurorscg.com

www.fallon.co.uk

www.freud.com

www.gluelondon.com

www.grey.co.uk

www.hmdg.com

www.hurrellanddawson.com

www.irisnation.com

www.jwt.com

www.krowcommunications.com

www.leagasdelaney.com

www.leoburnett.com

www.loweworldwide.com

www.loweuk.com

www.mcbd.co.uk

www.mccann.co.uk

www.mcsaatchi.com

www.motherlondon.com

www.ogilvy.co.uk

www.piperprivateequity.com

www.rkcryr.com

www.saatchi.co.uk

www.stlukes.co.uk

www.tbwa.com

www.theredbrickroad.co.uk

www.vccp.com

www.wcrs.com

www.wklondon.com

If you're looking to break into advertising the chaps at AdGrads have done a sterling job pulling all of the agencies accepting applications into a simple list.

Check out their blog and good luck with the applications! Remember, advertising applications are pretty different to your bog standard competency based form. Try and be original and interesting. Agencies want people with spark - if you're too earnest you're probably going to be sidelined for someone who looks more interesting. Try and corner your mates for a brain storm about different ways to approach things. After all that's how most agencies start with a client brief.

For more information on advertising check out our vids:

Advertising Overview

Key Skills for Advertising

Top Tips for Advertising

Here's a great little presentation we found on Ad Grads from a guy called Sam Ismail. He thought of a brilliant solution to the Saatchi & Saatchi graduate application form - unfortunately it ended-up getting him into trouble with the very company he was trying to impress! Turned out to be the best thing that could have happened though and it's great example of snatching success from the jaws of defeat (and how original thinking can really cut through). Looks like Saatchi's now use his presentation to promote their company on the Milkround so don't get too down over rejections - you'll probably end-up as the client of the company that rejected you, or as we hear so often, end-up as one of their senior managers!